Trichodes calamistratus Corporaal
- Dataset
- Revision of the Afrotropical species of the genus Trichodes HERBST, 1792 (Coleoptera, Cleridae)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Cleridae
- genus
- Trichodes
- species
- Trichodes calamistratus
description
Description Length: 10 mm (1 specimen) Head including eyes broader than apex of pronotum; blackblue; very finely punctate; with long and short dark pubescence; antennae and club red. AFRICA 10 AralSea North Atlantic BlackSea Caspian Sea MediterraneanSea Red Sea LakeChad LakeTurkana Lake Albert Lake Victoria Indian Ocean LakeTanganyika LakeNyasa South Lake Atlantic Kariba 0 1000 Km 0 1000 Mi. ProducedbytheCartographicResearchLab UniversityofAlabama tion. Pronotum longer than broad (length: width ratio 1.16); lateral margin sinuate; densely punctate, base obscurely punctate; blackblue; dark pubescence with long hairs. Elytral ground color orangebrown; with three dark spots: the apical spot is connected along the suture with the securiform spot behind the middle, the anterior spots are isolated. Elytra two and a half times as long as broad (length: width ratio 2.5); punctation irregular, dense, and obscured towards apex; diameter of punctures irregularly, mostly larger than intervals (especially within the dark spots), some punctures smaller than intervals; suture slightly protruding; sutural angle tapering apically, with tooth; with sparse dark to pale pubescence. Legs blackblue, tarsi brown; tibiae strongly curved, with long, white pubescence. Ventral surface blackblue, thorax glossy greenish; with white pubescence. Aedeagus, pygidium and male sternum VIII, see figs. 6 – 9.
description
Description Length: 9.5 – 10 mm (5 specimens) Head including eyes almost as broad as apex of pronotum or slightly broader; green; densely punctate, with long, dark and short, white pubescence; antennae red, with black club. Pronotum longer than broad (length: width ratio 1.12); green; lateral margin circular, constricted towards base; densely and deeply punctate; with long, dark and pale pubescence. Elytral ground color orange to red, reduced to three spots, all reaching the lateral margin, but not the suture; remaining color of fasciae green or greenishblue. Elytra almost two and a half times as long as broad (length: width ratio 2.44); densely punctate, more or less in rows; diameter of punctures within the spots of ground color smaller than intervals or almost equal, otherwise diameter of punctures larger than intervals; sutural angle slightly emarginate to subbevelled, and with tooth; sparse pubescence composed of long, dark hairs. Legs greenishblue; hind tibiae almost straight; pubescence consisting of long, white hairs and isolated, long, black hairs. Ventral surface green to blue, with long, white hairs; pubescence of abdomen more sparse than thorax. Aedeagus, pygidium and male sternum VIII, see figs. 11 – 14. AFRICA 15 AralSea North Atlantic BlackSea Caspian Sea MediterraneanSea Red Sea LakeChad LakeTurkana Lake Albert Lake Victoria Indian Ocean LakeTanganyika LakeNyasa South Lake Atlantic Kariba 0 1000 Km 1000 Mi. 0 ProducedbytheCartographicResearchLab U i it fAl b tion
distribution
Distribution See fig. 10. Collecting period May. Trichodes gemma Ancey (Plate 1; Figs. 11 – 15)
distribution
Distribution See fig. 15. Collecting period April, May.
materials_examined
Type Holotype in MNHN, but not found. Specimens examined 1 specimen, Bez. Tabora; Tehurter. (ZMB); 1 specimen, D. O. Afrika; Nyembe Bulungwa; Hammerstein S.; 1914 (DEI); 1 specimen, II. 10; leg. Holtz (DEI); 2 specimens, Tanzania IV. 92; Iringa Mts.; Werner leg. (CRG)
materials_examined
Type material Holotype. ɗ Ogaden AOI; Uarandab; Lomi V. 1936 (ZMA)
Name
- Synonyms
- Trichodes gemma Ancey 1881
- Homonyms
- Trichodes calamistratus Corporaal